MosesMalone
11.22.13 | Thought I had downloaded more splits than that. Gimme cool music bitches...please. |
Relinquished
11.22.13 | just wait until you realize you don't need all this shit |
Mort.
11.22.13 | "pirating is easier than spotify"
no shit
no offense, I just thought that was obvious |
MosesMalone
11.22.13 | But I do Relinquished, I do I do I do.
Yeah well it is but I always hear people saying how it's easier for them to use Spotify, how it's replacing pirating, etc. |
Mort.
11.22.13 | oh ok. Ive never heard that ever. I only started using spotify like a month ago.
I never download anymore anyway. I don't even have anything portable to listen to music with at the moment. fucking ipod broke |
Acanthus
11.22.13 | Asked my girlfriend to pick me up a new MP3 player for Christmas, want to ditch my phone and go back to just music listening capabilities.
I don't enjoy streaming services that much because I'm not guaranteed to have the music, it's just available as long as I'm logged in/the sites up/the artist allows it/etc.
Also the streaming quality is bad, as are most of the readily available results from pirate searches. |
Calc
11.22.13 | so you'll listen to half of these once and the other half not at all and then what? |
MosesMalone
11.22.13 | I usually just put my iPod on shuffle while at work and school so actually I'll probably hear all of the artists if not all of the albums. Damn such negativity today. |
sniper
11.22.13 | i used to dl like 5 albums a day but then i realized how stupid that is. pirating is easy if you don't care about bit rate but sometimes finding good rips is a headache. |
MosesMalone
11.22.13 | It's easy if you just use soulseek, I get 320 for everything I'm looking for. I just get bored listening to the same stuff all the time and I have a lot of time in which to jam out. It doesn't help that we have no good talk radio around here and NPR is usually boring as shit. |
Acanthus
11.22.13 | I dislike most applications that require a download and login to work, but I might check it out sometime.
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MosesMalone
11.22.13 | It keeps you logged in and you don't have to give them information or anything. It really is one of the most painless computer programs I've ever used.
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PunchforPunch
11.22.13 | slsk is m/ |
Mookid
11.22.13 | I downloaded the spotify downloader
eheheh |
Keyblade
11.22.13 | "i used to dl like 5 albums a day but then i realized how stupid that is. pirating is easy if you don't care about bit rate but sometimes finding good rips is a headache."
Not if you use slsk |
Hyperion1001
11.22.13 | spotify is worse for artists than illegally downloading is because it has set the precedent that only record labels will make money on album distribution. the record label signs the contract with spotify and gets paid a fuckton of royalties to stream the music and the artists sees functionally none of those profits.
not illegal downloading still doesnt pay the artists but at least it doesnt reinforce the draconian and outdated record label formula thats demise is long overdue
tl:dr dont use spotify |
Hyperion1001
11.22.13 | now**** |
PunchforPunch
11.22.13 | nice speech |
Relinquished
11.22.13 | he's right though no point in devaluing it |
MosesMalone
11.22.13 | Really? So the whole "artists make a fraction of a cent per listen" thing isn't actually true? |
Relinquished
11.22.13 | it is true |
Mad.
11.22.13 | Spotify sucks [3716]
What kind of tool would pay for a subscription lol |
Acanthus
11.22.13 | @Moses - it is true, which is why it sucks :
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/19/zoe-keating-spotify-streaming-royalties
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treeqt.
11.22.13 | "i used to dl like 5 albums a day but then i realized how stupid that is"
ya
that's when i got me a 4TB hdd and started downloading 20 albums a day |
MosesMalone
11.22.13 | Tree knows what's up.
Thanks by the way guys, now I can cancel spotify guilt-free. |
mryrtmrnfoxxxy
11.22.13 | spotify rules idgaf litter life nigga |
JamieTwort
11.22.13 | I like Spotify, it's great for what I use it for. I usually buy the albums I listen to on there eventually anyway so that's hardly damaging the music industry or the artists. Fuck subscribing/paying for it though. |
MoosechriS
11.22.13 | i like buying records too much for downloading, although it comes in handy when i can't be bothered ripping tapes or vinyl for my ipod |
MosesMalone
11.22.13 | I'm just getting myself into buying records myself. That being said I can't justify paying more than maybe thirty bucks for an album, but some of that shit is ridiculously priced. |
Mad.
11.22.13 | Grooveshark > |